The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-15
FLORIDA.


Charlotte Harbor last week Sunday had
its first wedding for fourteen years.
At DeLand six trains now arrive and de-
part daily over the DeLand railroad.
The citizens of DeLand have subscribed
$500 toward putting the Sub-Tropical Ex-
position on its feet.
The work Of getting out the timbers for
the railroad bridge at Palatka is being
pushed rapidly forward.
An engine for a very large saw mill was
shipped over the st. Johns and Halifax
railroad to Daytona Wednesday.
George L. Fox, we'll known river postal
clerk, and one of the oldest men in the pos
tai service in Florida, has resigned.
A negro named Alex Daniels died at the
calaboose at Orlando, Tuesday, of delirium
tremens. He was buried at the expense of
the city.
Is the Methodist church steeple perpen-
dcular or does it lean little to the south
westl is a question attracting some attention
at Orlando.
The Presbyterian church at Waldo will be
| dedicated Sunday, July a. The sermon
will be preached by Rev. James Mitchell,
| the former pastor.
The plaStering of the Kuhl- Delaney and
Hyer- McElroy blocks, at Orlando, is nearly
| completed, and both buildings will soon be
| ready for occupancy.
There is q movement on foot among some
of the clerks of Orlando to petition for the
early closing of business houses during a
part Of the hot season.
The tobacco crops of jefferson county arc
excellent, and if the farmers are careful in
the curing process, they will realize remu-
nerating prices for the leaf.
Last Monday Capt. Pierce, the contractor
y1p ic hti ho Of
lando, was the recipient of fine meerschaum
pipe, presented by his employees.
The spring term of the Circuit Court at
Orlando closed Friday morning. The
docket was an unusually heavy one, the
cases numbering several hundred.
The fig crop around Lloyd has been
greatly damaged by the continued rainy
weather. Field crops are looking fine in
this section, particularly that of corn.
Miss Lula Tucker, of Sanford, for many
years principal of the Jacksonville Gram
mar School, has resigned her position and
will remain at home with her parents.
At Fernandina the Republicans have
nominated Samuel Petty (coloredl for Mayor
and Samuel L. Dennette for Tax Collector,
to be voted for at the municipal election to-
day.
Cooper, the murderer of two men on one
of the Florida keys last winter, now in Jail
at Key West awaiting execution on July 80
has confessed the killing, but pleads self-de-
Tense.
The orange trees in various parts of Or
lando continue to bloom, and the air in
some places is heavy with perfume. The
large grove of Mr.. c. A. Boone is now in
full bloom.
The new building which Messrs. Motley
and Patrick are having erected at Orlando,
between the store of Schultz Bros. and the
Charleston Hotel, will be 25x40 feet, of brick
and one story high.
The Gainesville City and Suburban Street
Railway Company has, to very great ex-
tent, suspended work, especially on that part
of their line that will be inside the corpora
rate limits of Gainesville
J. G.. T. Crawford, the new Receiver of
the United States Land Office, has arrived
at Gainesville. He has not yet received his
commission, but expects it in a few DAYS,
when his office will be in working order.
The artesian well at DeIand has reached
depth of 80 feet. At that depth stream
of sulphur water was struck. Il did not
rise to the surface, however. The well will
probably have to go down 200 feet deeper
Quite number of Harris Tardiff oranges
have been exposed for sale at some of the
DeLand stores during the past few days
Although many of them are not fully
ripe, they are selling rapidly for 2l5 cents
each.
The large wooden cistern being built by
Mayor Goodrich III the rear of his brick
block at DeLand for fire protection is nearly
completed, He is going TO purchase hand
fire engine and organize little department
of his own.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Palatka National Bank will be held at the
Of 7 AVIx ti,n OF
Palatlla, on Monday, July Is, for the pur-
pose of electing an agent to whom the assets
of the bank will be transferred.
Messrs. II. Ruge & Son have purchased
two and half lots adjoining the canning
factory at Apaachicola consideration
$1,000. Coombs 81 Co. have purchased from
Hon. w. T. Orman the present site on which
their mill is located; consideration $4,000.
Large quantities of LeConte pears are
being shipped to the Northern markets
! through Monticello. L. b. Bailey has been
agreeably surprised. He expected to gather
| from his grove about seventy-five crates,
but the trees will yield probably $50 crates.
DeLand's population is somewhat scat
tered Mt present. Beside the large number at
| the seaside, they have citizens in Georgia,
! Alabama, Tennessee, New York, Nebras
| Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Canada, Engla
and, i'll fact, in almost every country on the
| globe.
j. H. Ahern, the former agent of the
| South Florida railroad at Tampa, is in San
ford for day or so. From there he goes to
| New York city, where he will establish an
office, he having received the appointment
| to the position of travelling agent of the
Plant system
II. J. Lilljibjorn, of Forest City, who left
last March for visit to his home in Upsa
| Sweden, returned short time ago. He got
rs far as New York, when he was robbed,
and, much TO his disappointment, his visit
to his Scandinavian home had to be indefl-
nitely postponed.
A negro living between Spring Garden
and Beresford succeeded in robbing one of
his companions n few days ago of $40.
When parties attempted 10 stop him he fired
upon them. Deputy Sheriff Stevenson
went in pursuit, hut the negro had emf
grated TO pastures new.
In jefferson county crops of all kinds are
fine. A very large crop of oats has been
harvested, corn will give an extraordinary
yield, and cotton bids fair to meet the most
sanguine expectations of our planters.
There is no evidence OF caterpillar. and the
shedding of the fruit is not more than usual.
At Bloomfield many orange trees are now
in full bloom. Figs are ripe, and there is
good crop The fruit is large and of good
quality. Figs are paying crop. They sell
here at lOc. per quart, or So per bushel
Peaches are about all gathered here, except
some fair Mort hppn Vnrietips panrs n,.a